Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President disapproves of compulsory military training for U. S. youths because it engenders a militaristic mental attitude; the physical benefits derived from the training are of exceptional value, he believes. He told reporters last week that the fencing and dumb-bell exercise he got at Amherst have helped him through life...
Engaged. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (Fairmont, Pa., capitalist-industrialist) ; to one R. D. Morgan, Philadelphia Bell Telephone clerk...
...several cases the legal relation of corporations, especially public utilities, to the Government was enlarged upon. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co., for example, was granted relief from low rates, after its application for increased rates had not been acted upon by a state board two years after it was made. Again the Court refused several similar actions where the public utility company had not made formal application for higher rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built...
...Where was there to be seen last week a bell four stories high...
...York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore to split waves with his strong body and loaf on the warm sand...